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Congressional Panel: Planned Parenthood Should Lose Federal Funds

Jan 10, 2017Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Planned Parenthood, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

A congressional panel has released findings saying Planned Parenthood should be stripped of its federal funding, based on evidence that Planned Parenthood sold organs and tissue harvested from aborted babies.

John Stonestreet at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview writes,

As a result of the revelations, the Panel, chaired by Representative Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, held hearings and put the nation’s largest abortion provider under a long-overdue microscope. What they found wasn’t pretty, to say the least.

The least troubling was a pattern of over-billing Medicaid and other healthcare funding programs to the tune of $132 million dollars.

More serious and far more troubling is Planned Parenthood’s disregard for the National Organ Transplant Act. The Act provides that “[i]t shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human organ for valuable consideration for use in human transplantation if the transfer affects interstate commerce.”

You can read Stonestreet’s full commentary here or listen to it below.

[audio:http://www.breakpoint.org/images/content/breakpoint/audio/2017/011017_BP.mp3|titles=No Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood]

U of A Polling Shows Arkansans Still Oppose Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage

Nov 3, 2016Jerry CoxAbortion, MarriageAbortion, Life, Marriage, Obergefell v. Hodges, Pro-life, Same-Sex Marriage, Sanctity of Human Life

This week the University of Arkansas released its annual Arkansas Poll for 2016. The poll examines Arkansans’ social and political views as well as approval of elected officials.

This year’s poll found Arkansans’ views have changed very little on, among other things, abortion and same-sex marriage.

Since 2015, 46% of Arkansans have said it ought to be more difficult to get an abortion; only 13% said it ought to be easier.

This confirms polling from other sources that has consistently found Americans oppose late-term abortion and believe abortion ought to be illegal in some or all circumstances.

Even though the U.S. Supreme Court nullified state marriage laws nationwide with its Obergefell decision in 2015, 57% of Arkansans still think same-sex marriage should not be recognized.

The numbers go up when the responses are narrowed to likely voters, with 48% of likely voters opposing abortion and 60% opposing same-sex marriage.

You can read the poll summary here.

Right to Life to Host Reception in Honor of A.G. Rutledge

Oct 21, 2016Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Arkansas Right to Life is hosting a reception in Little Rock in honor of Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Tuesday, November 15, from 5:30 – 7:30 P.M. An award will be presented to A.G. Rutledge at 6:30 P.M.

Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased at www.artl.org.

As we have noted many times, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has taken a decidedly pro-life stance.

Last year she effectively asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn it’s 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision.
She petitioned to get Arkansas’ Human Heartbeat Protection Act reinstated after part of the law was struck in court.
She is currently defending the state’s pro-life laws against two lawsuits by Planned Parenthood.

In addition to defending human life, A.G. Rutledge and her office have taken a strong position on a number of important issues, including:

Opposing the Obama Administration’s radical “guidelines” concerning school restrooms, showers, locker rooms, and similar facilities.
Opposing the effort to legalize so-called “medical marijuana” in Arkansas.
Helping defend the constitutionality of public prayer.
Helping defend religious liberty.
Opposing local ordinances that grant special privileges and protections based on sexual-orientation and gender-identity.